Procrastinationathon

literature

2012-01-14T20:49:00.003Z

Sredni Vashtar

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

good luck from brighton

2011-10-31T14:51:00.004Z

bandwagon

2011-09-29T00:34:00.002+01:00

http://acgodliman.tumblr.com/

monkeys

2011-08-21T21:58:00.002+01:00

cow

2011-08-17T20:57:00.001+01:00

todays picture is based on a true story.

chicken

2011-08-17T18:33:00.001+01:00

(really, it's a chicken)

august again

2011-08-15T20:42:00.003+01:00

lawn turkey

2011-08-10T00:36:00.002+01:00

august

2011-08-07T22:51:00.003+01:00

hopefully i am now getting the hang of this projct a bit more, maybe.

penguins

2011-07-30T19:54:00.001+01:00

owl

2011-07-25T21:41:00.002+01:00

week 1

2011-07-04T21:30:00.005+01:00

a drawing a day diary project for uni, i'm going to try and put a weeks worth of images up every monday. usually this'd be seven drawings, but the project started from the 1st, so only three this time.

friday

saturday

sunday (lunch)

mask

2011-06-30T16:04:00.001+01:00

hello

Papercutting

2011-06-23T19:59:00.004+01:00

i've been taking some classes, here are a couple of pieces from them...

and some after-hours experimenting...

Umbrella

2011-06-20T23:12:00.005+01:00

imaginary bookshop ad (for a real bookshop mind).

Fox in the Snow

2011-05-23T00:10:00.001+01:00

for a friend

Open day

2011-05-15T16:45:00.002+01:00

two options for my submission for brighton uni's open day poster...

Songbird

2011-05-01T00:46:00.002+01:00

Rituals

2011-03-30T21:16:00.002+01:00

Sewing

Praying

Lines

Dancing

Power

2011-03-29T21:06:00.007+01:00

mind

skeleton

eyes

backbone

Sublime

2011-03-28T21:15:00.003+01:00

male

female

Erase 2

2011-03-25T17:29:00.002Z

Juvenille

My sketchbook

2011-03-24T19:22:00.003Z

...is weirdly diagramatic.

Erase

2011-03-24T18:44:00.003Z

male

and female

for the current semiotics project. ta to philippe and jordan for the black tape and tippex loans.

fallen

2011-03-24T18:25:00.001Z

unused image from my current semiotics project.

some life drawing

2011-03-19T17:15:00.004Z

was small enough to fit into my scanner this week, so i did just that.

moles

2011-02-11T18:59:00.001Z

also to be incorperated into "worlds collide"

Humming Bird

2011-02-11T18:27:00.001Z

a version of this will form part of "worlds collide" but not this.

Dragon

2011-02-07T18:26:00.003Z

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for the "worlds collide" project. not sure if this will actually make it into any of my final work, but i might redraw this with better rendered wings, as i'm happy with the design.

hypertrichosis IV

2011-01-17T17:30:00.003Z

Manx

2011-01-15T17:43:00.007Z

final images from the "first and last" project.

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"Dy banne Pharick Noo shin as nyn maatyn."
"May St. Patrick bless us and our boats."

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"Gow magh dy loan, trooid thie dy mullagh"
"Go out bare, come home rough."

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"Vel ny partanyn snaue?"
"Cha nel monney, t'ad feer ghoan"
"Are the crabs crawling?"
"Not much, they're very scarce."

hypertrichosis III

2011-01-14T20:30:00.002Z

i think it works better to stick to the "blonde" as the contrast is nicer, i'll try something similar to this with a better source image. then work on making something larger and incorperating the numbers element.

hypertrichosis II

2011-01-14T18:15:00.004Z

putting yellow ink over the pencil marks on this one meant they were still partially visible when i rubbed them out afterwards, which i quite like the effect of, as it gives the hair more texture then the darker colour did yesterday.

hypertrichosis

2011-01-13T17:15:00.001Z

for the "numbers" project...

..i'll make it fit somehow.

skin

2010-11-15T17:49:00.000Z

not sure where this one came from if i'm honist.

porpoise

2010-11-12T21:42:00.002Z

roach

2010-10-26T18:58:00.003+01:00

not happy with the clothing, going to try something different next time (i'm sure you're excited)

thinking

2010-10-25T18:15:00.001+01:00

or not, as the case may be.

mindless vandalism

2010-10-22T21:43:00.003+01:00

couldn't get on with the life class today, but this is a drawing of a man in the nip, so it sort of counts...

Summer

2010-09-28T18:06:00.002+01:00

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Completed summer self portait project. Due to the lighting, the size, and the colour and texture of the paper it was done on (bad, 5ft3, off white, rough), it didn't photograph all that well, but i fiddled till it was as clear as it would go, and this is the result.

feet

2010-09-21T17:38:00.002+01:00

been drawing a lot of feet today.

apple

2010-09-15T15:45:00.002+01:00

i had a headache, so i drew this

and coloured it in.

pattern

2010-08-29T11:02:00.003+01:00

tattoo type design sketch, just to practice.

same image made symetrical and cleaned up.

lost child

2010-08-09T21:51:00.003+01:00

seemed a rather whimsical idea in my head, on paper...less so.

Hangman

2010-07-31T11:42:00.004+01:00

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starting to put ideas and concepts together for the "Innsmouth" project idea. off to an admittedly confused start, think i've got some more ideas gathering to do and might also need to recover the book i gave away (sorry!).
this is a figure i drew to be part of a larger scene which i've not yet quite worked out. didn't make the inner lines dotted on this like i usually do, which was a mistake i think.

sometimes, i regret the things i draw

2010-07-17T17:39:00.001+01:00

usually it comes from when i sit down and think "i'll just draw whatever".

catch of the day

2010-07-11T22:02:00.002+01:00

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another innsmouth picture, going to take advantage of my gallery spots next week and get some sketches of the church so i can hopefully build this into something a little more coherant.

tarsier, in, spaaaaaaaaaace

2010-07-10T17:20:00.001+01:00

i'm not really very happy with this pic (for another b3ta compo)

tastey cheese

2010-07-06T19:10:00.002+01:00

my entry in the current b3ta compo "giraffes".

Quis Est Iste Qui Venit?

2010-07-05T20:18:00.002+01:00

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A whale on stils.

The Organic Line

2010-07-01T14:00:00.004+01:00

well, thats the final project over and done with, now i'll just be whatever takes my facey untill september. i suppose that would also not really be procrastination, but i wont get pedantic about it.

The Organic Line from a c godliman on Vimeo.

this is a short video, tour i suppose, around my installation space. on the vimeo page itself there are also a few clearer fickr images of the various bits and pieces i made in situe.
my mark was a merit in the end.

4-1

2010-06-27T16:58:00.002+01:00

i'm not really into football, so instead of watching england lose to germany, i drew a naked, aged, hunted pirate.

incoming message from the giant head.

2010-06-18T00:21:00.002+01:00

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late late sketch

2010-06-16T23:26:00.001+01:00

evening doodle.

project

2010-06-06T18:02:00.002+01:00

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one of my project growths on skin, with and without added gore.

project

2010-06-05T22:29:00.001+01:00

this is not progressing with anything like the speed which it should be.
press on, press on.

hollow earth, bus stop

2010-05-21T12:52:00.001+01:00

not done a hollow earth pic in a while, so here you go.

firespider

2010-05-17T19:50:00.003+01:00

drawn with FIRE!
(and lemons)

i need to find a better developing method next time, maybe an iron, or sticking it over the log fire next time it's going. the candle method is a little patchy, also the other two pictures i made set alight...

...not to be tried at home kids.

more project

2010-05-16T18:13:00.002+01:00

the petal i was working on broke apert a little as i did this (guilding), seems that although drying them out is a good idea if you are working onto them with ink, it makes this difficult if you're working with glue.
i'm currently trying to press some more under weights so they'll be flat but not brittle.

project

2010-05-09T17:44:00.001+01:00

more from my end of year project, need to do some more experimenting on this one.

Innsmouth

2010-05-07T13:23:00.003+01:00

click for big

reproduced by kind permission from the snaith collection

little grotesque

2010-04-28T16:34:00.000+01:00

shh!

more naughty

2010-04-19T20:20:00.004+01:00

click! (it does get quite a bit bigger than this)

i think i've finally gotten together in my head how my final project is going to go. so hopefully (and much to my audiances distress i'm sure) i'm going to be procrastinating a lot less over the next 2 months. i will do as i have here though, and give you the occational little tid-bit from what i'm doing, and maybe even some old bits and bobs i've got lying around but never put up.
onward and forward!

(in celebration of my momentus doing of stuff, you may have this picture as a wallpaper if you ask.)

headless priest

2010-04-15T19:37:00.002+01:00

cliiiiiiick!

although this was done on a4, i am very conscious of the fact that my drawings are starting to get smaller again.

forbidden fruit

2010-04-13T19:35:00.004+01:00

once again, i post something which is technically college work, and not procrastination at all. however, i've been doing a fair bit of stuff that is not what i'm meant to be doing rencently, and it's seriously starting to dig into things i really should be getting on with. my logic, if i post a little of this stuff, i might get on with a great deal more of it.
this is a somewhat vague natural form, carved from the finest cuttlefish bone, or whatever the chalky layered stuff they're made out of is anyway.

the library

2010-04-12T19:56:00.004+01:00

give us a click

there was a great deal of deliberation about the placement of the corners of the room here.

octopus

2010-04-11T20:35:00.001+01:00

something less hellish for a change.

waiter

2010-04-07T16:55:00.003+01:00

click it

decapitation, the gift that keeps on giving. really though, i need to string these together somehow, i have some idea's but we keep coming back to that "i cannot write for toffee" chestnut.

pencils

2010-04-06T23:26:00.004+01:00

One of two drawings I started today but didn't finish. As you can see, this started as a seated figure but, because I begun at about half 10 at night, when I couldn't get the legs to work I just cut them off. On the upside, for him, this means I've given this one a head to make up for it. I'll have a mull over what the rest of the scene might be and finish it in pen tomorrow.
I shall be fixing that left hand though, which took a while to get right, before I realised it was on back to front.

jiggery pokery

2010-04-05T17:36:00.003+01:00

many thanks to herman for animating my beheaded chap out on stroll from yesterday.

headless on the stairs

2010-04-05T17:04:00.002+01:00

click to see what it looks like bigger than this

having a proper stab at a series. although at this point i've no idea what i would do with them afterwards.

headless again

2010-04-04T17:28:00.002+01:00

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drawn on a much larger scale for once (original is a4 landscape), dipping pens again, i'm getting the hang of them now.

'shopped!

2010-03-25T18:57:00.003Z

pen on dried rose petal.
the idea was that the lines look as if they are growing there, but i think i'm going to have to work on a more natural looking shape. this has ended up looking weirdly mocked up, in spite of me actually having drawn directly onto the petal.

headless

2010-03-21T20:26:00.002Z

cakestand

2010-03-17T21:35:00.004Z

(click for big)

perfect for birthdays.

my milkshake

2010-03-10T19:55:00.001Z

not yours.

bbc to axe 6 music

2010-02-27T17:33:00.003Z

possibly
still, enjoy my not-in-the-least-melodramatic responce to this revelation. :(
(the stange stuff at the bottom of the image there btw is "colour", which i have decided to try and play around with a little bit.)

fisherman

2010-02-26T20:52:00.003Z

first attempt at drawing with a dipping pen. fair few mistakes. turns out keeping the pen full isn't quite as important as keeping it clean. there are a few thick lines in this caused by fluff on the nib. i'll have a jay cloth on stand by next time. i'll see if i can dig out a "mapping nib" from the old bits and pieces i have kicking around also.
(on the plus's i'm am chuffed with how the body shape worked out)

something vaguely fishy

2010-02-25T22:28:00.003Z

something doesn't satify me about this, maybe i'll try using the character in a drawing rather than just having him stand there, or maybe its the way i've rendered it. this is the rotaring again, which had come back to life thankfully. i should still buy and experiment with some dip pens though, i think i might prefer the line.

matchlight

2010-02-24T00:43:00.004Z

things to do;
repair pen,
find good source of life poses,
gain patiance to hand shade things,
redraw this idea.

Greenfingers

2010-02-12T21:19:00.002Z

inspired by this picture of wolffia angusta.
ideally, would have been done with a much small nib.

pencil peacock

2010-02-07T20:49:00.005Z

had to give up on my rotaring pen, this was done using a 0.1 fineliner. body and tail scanned seperately, then joined up in photoshop.

little galaxy

2010-01-31T00:22:00.002Z

some designs are better than others.
with the buttons, the unfortunate thing is out of context they don't really look small, they have no set size afterall. the 5p here is entirely to give scale.

monkey

2010-01-30T15:21:00.002Z

can't say i'm overly pleased with this, the monkey looks a little rubbish, i had to fight with my pen during the whole thing (hopefully i've not broken another rotering pen). and the overall idea is a bit "meh".

still, practice is practice.

sharpenings

2010-01-28T22:54:00.002Z

far more planning than the last one, though i'm not actually as pleased with it. my pen stopped working halfway through so this is partly down to frustration.

100 today

2010-01-28T14:48:00.009Z

Well, according to blogger this is my centennial post, so I suppose I'd better make a hooha of it? Though perhaps that would defeat the achievement a little, so I'm going to try and talk about the ICA instead.

I had my first trip to the Institute of Contemporary Arts yesterday, and if recent reports are any suggestion, possibly my last. The institute was recently bailed out to the tune of £1.2million, and a further million of job and salary cuts are planed. The chairman (him off of newsnight review) claims he is "confident" of the ICA's survival, but based on my experience yesterday I'm no overly sure why.

The current exhibition "For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there" is, as it's embarassingly long winded title hints, pretty much the closest to a cack handed tabloid parody of a inaccessible contemporary art show as I have ever seen. This is, somewhat impressively, no fault of the art on display itself, but entirely how it has been curated.
The high points of the work were many, two beautiful etchings ("Vari oggetti su un tavolo" and "Natura Morta") by Giorgio Morandi, a chaotic wall of thoughts, style instillation by Matt Mullican, an animated puppet sculpture by Peter Fishchili and David Weiss (who also had 2 other works in the show) which sat right on the border between being adorable and really bloody creepy, and some fun collage sculptures by Patrick van Caeckenbergh.
My personal highlight (although the Monandi's were probably on a par) was by Dave Hullfish Bailey, a large instillation of a half built roof (or at least possibly a roof) made out of a mad very Blue Peter-ish mix of wood, card, string and wool, all hooked up to a trailer. The title, "When there was nothing left to see we looked for a place where we couldn't be seen doing it" is, needless to say, just a little on the long side which does have the effect, much like the shows title, of adding an air of pretension, but, here I think its far more justifiably descriptive, you're looking at something from halfway through a story, and though its probably down to my own bias for narrative things, I like that very much.
The last piece I'll mention was the best known piece on display, and also the most telling one. A bound engraving of the "Ferrante Imperato" museum in Naples, from 1599.

this one

Not a museum in the modern sense, but a "Cabinet of Curiosities", a vast mish mash of natural and cultural artifacts removed from any context and without any explanation. Basically, the ICA show in a nutshell. It's an interesting idea, if you remove explanations and justifications from a gallery you change the way people look at work for the better, you force them to interpret things on their own, and the result, if not a greater understanding of what they're seeing, is a far greater enthusiasm for it.
Unfortunately, it hasn't quite worked out that way, the collection here has also picked up on the failings of the cabinets of curiosity, the fact that they existed not so much for the enjoyment and apreciation of a viewer, but, for more reason than any other, to show how wealthy, well travelled, and educated the collector was, and the collections themselves were often no better organised than most junk shops, but without any of the satisfation of being able to pick something up and take it home. The works in the ICA show are indeed impressively broad and eclectic, but they're also piled high, the sound from film pieces interrupts the mood of others, instillation rooms have framed pictures stuffed into the corners, and you can't be overly sure where one thing starts and another finishes. You more or less have to battle against the assault on your senses to get a feel for anything, and had I been there off my own back, and not part of a group, I don't think I would have been bothered to.

At a time like this any shows the ICA put on are inevitably going to be seen as reflections of the institution as a whole. I can only hope they have enough time left to put on something which shows itself in a much better light than this did, if indeed, there is a better light than this.

more minis

2010-01-25T17:23:00.003Z

impromptue micro drawing, so the patterns aren't great. next time i'll borrow some ernst haeckel references.

and again

2010-01-23T19:44:00.003Z

i drew another image featuring my recurring companion yesterday, but i neglected to scan it before sending the whole series so far to the framers (i have plans for them). so, feeling a little guilty about that i give you this.
which i'm also feeling guilty about, just a bit differently.

hollow earth, industry

2010-01-03T19:01:00.002Z

pocker picture

2010-01-01T15:31:00.003Z

happy new year everyone!

infestation

2009-12-21T17:05:00.004Z

my scanner didn't pick this up as well as i would have liked, so some photo fiddling was needed to make the lines nicely visible. still couldn't get them to show up as black though (not without getting all the veins to do the same anyway)

thought it might be easier on a green leaf, but it didn't quite work out, it was no easier or more difficult to draw, and it has flattened out for scanning better, but the colour is harder to see the back line against, and the shine on the leaf gets in the way.

the hunt continues.

My Art Year

2009-12-20T19:54:00.002Z

Well, it’s nearly over.
I was going to use this post to give a detailed run down off all the art I saw and took care of in my gallery job this year, but after 5 or so aborted attempts at that I’ve come to the conclusion that trying to write an art review up to 7 months after you saw something is nearly impossible, so perhaps something much more general would be a better idea?
Well, this year I’ve looked after 7 works by 3 artists, 2 of which I was lucky enough to be able to be involved in the making of, and 1 of those I featured in.
Not too bad then, after basically just passing time for the last few years I’ve more or less thrown myself in at the deep end with this stuff. My art knowledge has always been ok, but my involvement pretty much non existent, so to be suddenly be faced with a huge warehouse with a 6 ft deep red hole dug in the middle of it and then asked “what is it about?” by a series of people is a pretty steep learning curve.

Hopefully now as I go on I’ll get into the habit of writing down reviews of things, be they fine art, illustration or otherwise, as I go, and hopefully anyone reading this won’t be too bored by it.

to next year!

life cup

2009-12-12T16:46:00.006Z

click for a larger more visible version (might have along load time)

experiment

2009-12-11T17:46:00.003Z

drawing on a brasil nut

Wolpertinger

2009-12-09T16:51:00.003Z

more tea

2009-12-05T15:39:00.002Z

pine cone

2009-12-02T15:58:00.002Z

something from my college sketchbook, which makes the drawing not technically procrastination, the childish layout on the other hand...

kittea!

2009-11-28T21:04:00.002Z

ludicrus and poorly coloured images, how i missed you.

MuZz (volume 1)

2009-11-27T21:34:00.002Z

Is this the start of a beautiful Friday review slot? No idea.
But it’s a friday again, college commitments have meant I’ve actually managed to not draw much random unrelated stuff this week, and there are other drawing filled books which I’ve read and enjoyed, so, permanent position or no, here we are again.
There was a period in my life a few years ago where I had ambitions to be a comic book nerd, I like pictures, stories, and have a particular leaning towards science fiction, so it seemed a good move for me. Well, sprawling and impenetrable as the comic book world is, I never quite made it, but I did pick up a few interesting things along the way. One of these was the work of illustrator Foo Swee Chin (or FsC), who, when I first found my way to her work, was illustrating a comic called “Nightmares and Fairytales” for Slave Labor Graphics (possibly better known as “the people who published Johnny the Homicidal Maniac”). The comic was... ok, but what drew me in to reading it and kept me there were the drawings, ostensibly “manga” in style, they were also surreal, energetic, elegant, and like any good drawing, seemingly effortlessly executed.
FsC left “Nightmares and Fairytales” after the first two series, and thus so did I, and it was a while before I spotted her work again. Firstly, in the form of a small number of self penned “one shot” comics published by Neko Press, and subsequently in MuZz.

MuZz, is an, as yet, incomplete comic series, and a confusing one. The basic plot follows a character called “Farllee”, who we first meet when she awakens, disorientated and with no idea of her own identity, or history, on a train. The train, we learn, is headed for the city of “MuZz” the place all imagined personalities go when the people who imagine them die. I won’t delve too deep in to the plot, other to say Farllee stands out as peculiar even among the bizarre array of half formed creatures that make up those around her, and this makes their trip to MuZz a very turbulent one, and their subsequent arrival cause a great deal more trouble, as the residents, and leaders, of the city try and figure out who, and indeed what, Farllee is. The book hangs it narrative around the framework of dreams and wondering imaginations, so utter chaos is par of the course. Is it good? Hard to say really, being so far only volume one of, I don’t know how many. But, what it definitely is, is beautiful. You’re reading someone's imagination in full flow, and it’s a vast imagination, every image is wonderfully conceived and designed, and there are enough ideas featured to form the groundwork of several books. I can’t admit to having gone back and reread the text since I purchased it, but I can barely pass it on the shelf without picking it up and revisiting the images.
I wouldn’t suggest MuZz to anyone interested in a narrative, but for lovers of imagery I can’t recommend looking into the work of Foo Swee Chin highly enough myself, and MuZz is her work in its most undiluted form.

swan

2009-11-22T19:13:00.003Z